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Hi.

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I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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Let's talk about seven essential sentences
using the word get.

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If you've ever been confused about the word
get, you're not alone.

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There are tens, hundreds, thousands, maybe
even millions of expressions that use the

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word get in English.

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This can be bad news or overwhelming for English
learners.

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But guess what?

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Today I'm going to share with you the most
essential get expressions in my opinion.

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These are the ones that I personally use the
most and often on a daily basis.

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So feel free to find more get expressions.

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There are plenty of others.

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But today I want to share these seven with
you so that you can memorize those sentences

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and use them yourself specifically in daily
conversation.

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The first get sentence is got eight hours
of sleep last night.

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As a new mom, I often talk about sleep with
my other mom friends.

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And something amazing happened recently.

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My baby started sleeping longer especially
at night, which is beautiful.

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So I often say how many hours of sleep I got.

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So you could say, "I'm so tired.

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I only got three hours of sleep last night."

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You're talking about how long you slept, but
you can say get or got.

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I got three hours of sleep.

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I hope that I can get eight hours of sleep
tonight.

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The second sentence is, it's easy to get distracted
by social media.

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I was talking with my friend the other day
about Facebook and Instagram and even YouTube.

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It's so easy to get distracted because it's
always there and we don't need to be bored

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anymore because there's always something to
look at.

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And that has pros and cons.

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Personally, I don't like to get distracted
by Facebook or other social media, so I often

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talk about this.

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I'm trying to not get distracted.

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I'm trying to focus.

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Of course, you can add a lot of different
words at the end of the sentence.

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I'm getting hungry.

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I got bored.

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I got distracted.

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You can use a lot of words at the end.

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But I wanted to share this sentence get distracted
with you because I feel like we can use this

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a lot in daily life.

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My third sentence is he got home at 5:00pm
every day.

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He got home this expression to get home, it
can be used a lot because maybe you go to

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school or you go to work or you just are doing
some activities.

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You're going to get home at a specific time.

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And often we ask each other maybe family members
or friends, when are you going to get home?

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Or what happened last night?

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When did you get home?

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So this fixed expression, get home, can be
really useful.

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I want to share a quick story so that you
can remember this expression.

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When I was younger, my ... when I was a child
actually, my dad used to go to work early,

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maybe 7:00 or so.

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And he used to get home at 5:00.

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He had the choice to go to work later, maybe
8:00 and come home later.

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So it was possible that he could get home
at 6:00 or 7:00.

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But he decided to spend more time with us
as a family, so he decided that he would go

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to work earlier and he would get home earlier
so he could spend time with us.

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So I want to know for you What time do you
get home?

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The fourth sentence goes with the previous
sentence.

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It is I got back from vacation yesterday,
but I'm still tired.

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If you've ever experienced this, let me know
in the comments.

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I know when I go on vacation, sometimes I
want to do stuff all the time and go see stuff

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and then vacation's over, I feel even more
tired than at the beginning.

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So you can use this expression for whenever
you get home.

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So you can say, "I got back from vacation.

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I got back from work.

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I got back from," plus that place that you
were at.

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Maybe you were at your friend's house.

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"I got back from her house last night.

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I got back from the concert late."

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Great.

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You can use this all together.

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Where did you get home from?

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I got home from, I got back from that place.

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The fifth sentence is one that I use a couple
days ago actually.

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I have a little secret.

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I know a lot of you enjoy TV shows and movies.

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But personally I'm not really a big fan of
watching TV.

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The only TV shows I watch are documentaries
or something like that.

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But the other day my husband and I decided
to try to watch the TV show Friends.

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I know this is super popular and a lot of
people enjoy using it for English.

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But for me for my personal enjoyment, I don't
really enjoy watching that type of thing.

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But we thought, let's give it a try.

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Let's try to watch this TV show.

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It's so popular, right?

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Let's ... it's got to be great.

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Well, after we watched about six or seven
minutes, we stopped the show and said, "I

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don't get why this is popular.

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I don't get why people like this."

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And this is a personal opinion, it might be
controversial.

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But in the end, it wasn't my style of TV show.

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So you can use the same expression don't get
why, plus something else.

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So you might say, "Vanessa, I don't get why
you didn't like it.

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This is a great show."

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Let me know in the comments.

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What do you think about the TV show Friends.

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Do you not get why it's popular or maybe you
don't get why I don't like it.

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But often we use this in the negative.

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I don't get something.

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This has to do with understanding something.

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I don't understand why this is popular.

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So you too can use this expression.

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I don't get why something happened.

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The sixth get sentence is we need to get going.

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We need to get going.

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This expression get going, I use all the time.

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And it's often that family members or people
who you live with will use this with each

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other, because it's possible that someone
in your house is slower than the others.

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Or maybe they don't want to go to an event
and you are feeling hurried or worried even

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about being late.

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So you could say, "Oh, come on, we need to
get going."

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This means we need to leave soon.

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We need to leave now.

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We need to get going.

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For me now that I have a baby, it takes a
lot longer to organize stuff and get out of

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our house.

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So I often say this, "Oh, we need to get going."

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But there's so many things we need to do.

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So I want to know for you, can you use get
going?

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We need to get going.

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The final get sentence is let's get together
tomorrow.

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Get together.

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I used to this actually yesterday because
one of my friends got a new puppy and I can't

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wait to see it.

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So I invited myself to her house, pretty much,
and I said, "Let's get together tomorrow.

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I need to see your puppy.

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This is essential."

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So when you use get together, this is the
same as I want to see you.

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I want to visit you.

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I want to go to your house and spend some
time together.

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But it's a little more casual and it's really
common in daily conversation.

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So the next time that you want to plan an
event with someone, make sure you use this.

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Let's get together at 5:00.

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Let's get together next month.

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I'm really busy this month.

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Or, I can't get together, I'm sorry.

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Use this full expression get together.

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So now it's your turn.

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In the comments below, answer one of my questions.

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Can you use get sleep?

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Get distracted?

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Get going?

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Get together?

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All of these get expressions.

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Can you use them in the comments?

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Try to write sentences, read them out loud
and use them in your daily conversations.

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Thanks so much for learning with me.

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I got to get going.

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See you later.

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Bye.

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